It appears that Heather Cheesbrough, Croydon Council’s former “director of planning and sustainable regeneration”, has been busy trying to rewrite history since leaving her £130,000-plus job earlier this month.

New LinkedIn profile: but same old half-truths from former planning chief Heather Cheesbrough
An internal council memo gave the reason for Cheesbrough’s departure as the desire to take a “career break”.
It’s not clear how long the career break was supposed to last, but since she stepped out of the exit door of Fisher’s Folly for a final time, 57-year-old Cheesbrough has used social media to try to polish the turd that is her record of nine disastrous years in charge of planning in Croydon.
Cheesbrough joined Croydon Council in 2016, as the first and most significant appointment made by Jo Negrini after she had become chief executive and was seeking her own replacement at director level.
Cheesbrough’s somewhat high-handed approach towards the borough’s residents and councillors saw her swiftly become a figure of public distrust and anger second only to “Negreedy” herself. Continue reading







There’s only a handful of opportunities each year for the public to question the way their council is being run, but as ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, discovered when watching last night’s full council meeting, it is increasingly obvious that the elected Mayor and council directors prefer not to provide any answers

The recruitment boost, part of the government’s Plan for Change, aims to make it easier for people to get an appointment with their GP, ease pressure on GPs, cut waiting lists and “bring back the family GP”.












Our four MPs are doing nothing to try to stop carnage in Gaza
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These words of Francesca Albanese, the UN Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sum up a position which is blindingly obvious to most people, but which seems to be lost on Croydon’s MPs: Steve Reed (Labour, Streatham and Croydon North), Sarah Jones (Labour, Croydon West), Chris Philp (Tory, Croydon South) and Natasha Irons (Labour, Croydon East).
We have all seen the television coverage showing how Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinians, particularly in Gaza but also the occupied West Bank, has played out. More than 50,000 in Gaza are dead, including at least 15,000 children. Medics have been killed, 200 journalists have been killed. Virtually the whole of Gaza has been flattened.
Almost the entire population of Gaza has been driven from their homes, often on multiple occasions. Nowhere is safe for them. Many have been bombed in their makeshift tents. Continue reading →
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